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@philipslattery @IFBMedia He finished 4th because of one cock up. he utterly messed up at home to Israel when we were cruising and almost home and hosed. He panicked when Keane got injured. If he kept his head in that match we top that group

@IFBMedia Brian Kerr was a worse Ireland manager than Staunton. There was plenty of time to claw back the Euro 2004 qualifiers. He also had the golden generation and we proceeded to finish 4th behind Israel for the 2006 WC ... He got off easy because he had mates in the media.

What’s an Irish football related opinion that will have you like this?

@swearimnotpaul Inspiring.

Absolutely brilliant interview 😂😂😂

@Mark_McGrath1 @reptracker We literally wouldn't have been in the playoffs but for his performance in Budapest. He got us ticking in second half there

@reptracker What's the point in posting this? Does fuck all in an Irish shirt

Finn Azaz’s goal🌟

@user19988647 @reptracker Mixed it up with Macedonia 🤦‍♂️

@hist_michael @reptracker He wasn’t

Johnny Kenny scores from the penalty spot!🇮🇪

@user19988647 @reptracker He was on the pitch. Came on with 7 minutes to go.

@reptracker Left on the bench for the shootout in prague..

@JohnnyDuerden 16 is not more than enough. It's 1/3 of spots for UEFA. In the last world cup, half of the last 16 were UEFA teams. World cup before 10 of the last 16 were UEFA teams. It's not a fair system

Don't agree with the first sentiment as 16 is more than enough. Disquiet over home advantage is right and we've seen the same problem in Asia.

@amberarmy1967 @MiguelDelaney And didn't even have an away match. Win zero from six in qualifiers. Ukraine in a neutral venue, Poland at home then to qualify. Utterly unfair.

@MiguelDelaney That’s what happens when you expand the play offs to 16 teams to include those who did well in the nations league. Makes a farce of the qualifying groups, Sweden didn’t win a single game and have qualified.

Again, it feels ridiculous these qualifiers should involve home advantage. There's way too much at stake, and these final ones were luck of the draw.

@MiguelDelaney Czechia were the 3rd best side from 4 on our side of draw. Home advantage has got it for them. It's just not fair (I know I'd not feel this way if it was us putting the Danes to the sword in Dublin tonight). But seriously it has to change

@noelmickedy @Squizzbfc There would have been no playoff for Ireland were it not for Azaz. Every bit as important as Parrott in Budapest. Yes everyone is frustrated with Manning, but it's his ball to Idah for the equaliser at home to Hungary.

@Squizzbfc Manning Azaz Browne.. A trilogy of shits

@MiguelDelaney Scrap playoffs. The standard amongst European sides is good enough that 2 from European groups should qualify. 12 groups,24 trams qualify. Let FIFA figure out what to do with it. It's desperately unfair the paths Europeans have to make their way through compared to other confeds.

Also (and this is genuinely a wider point not just about Ireland!) Given what the World Cup means, it seems ridiculous to have play-offs as one-offs where one team has a home advantage Have it at a neutral venue or go back to two legs x.com/MiguelDelaney/…

@Manofsteel94 @00sFootb4ll Morrison would have been in the squad. I think that was O'Sheas break out season at united but he didn't make world cup squad

@hist_michael @00sFootb4ll Good times, were Clinton Morrison and John O’Shea in that team aswell ?

Netherlands team who failed to qualify for the 2002 World Cup 🇳🇱❌

@Arjankw86 @00sFootb4ll The reversal of that, Ireland were two up on the Dutch in Amsterdam and cruising and we threw away two points.

@00sFootb4ll Among others because of a easy penalty giving in the last minute in Portugal for Pauleta. Figo scores the penalty. Holland was fantastic that match and had a 0-2 lead. 2 - 2 in the end. 2 goals Kluivert. That was the match in my opinion we throw away the qualify of WC 2002

@RMcGreevy1301 Tbf a lot of JC teachers use John Redmond and Edward Carson as their two parliamentary tradition figures. I do and with Redmond that gives me the scope to discuss woodenbridge and our involvement in WW1. Drawback to that is I don't get to do O'Connell and Parnell with them

The National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCAA) has just produced its draft new curriculum for Leaving Certificate history. You cannot understand how the modern world has evolved without understanding the impact of the First World War, yet this draft curriculum mysteriously starts from 1917 onwards. Any rational analysis of modern world history would have to start at 1914. This is bad enough, but in its Irish section it makes no mention of Irish involvement in the war. The fact that more Irish were involved in the First World War doesn't seem to figure in this draft curriculum at all. I recently read a Junior Certificate book on Irish history which makes no mention at all of Irish involvement in the war. The "national amnesia" of Irish participation in the WW1, as FX Martin famously described it, seems to have vanished everywhere in Irish society except on the school curriculum. It's like the last 50 years of scholarship which firmly places the Irish struggle for freedom in the context of that war has been completely ignored. Who decides this? ncca.ie/media/v31fj1zx…

@MichaelPTKelly Tbf every single Junior Cycle student does History, and the Holocaust and Genocide is covered by all.

We really need an urgent effort in Holocaust education in schools... irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/0…

@FinnOM18 @IrishPropaganda Literally everything we did that was decent in Hungary came through Azaz. Two goals, Kenny's great chance at end, O'Briens great chance in first half, Idahs offside goal. Frustrating but can be a little magician.

Paul Nebel is very interesting Declared for Germany, then said he’d think about it if Ireland ever came knocking, called up by Germany, didn’t play & now is out of form with Mainz struggling in the Bundesliga There’s a proper talent there, ask the question Heimir 🇮🇪🇩🇪

@IrishPropaganda Give us Hungary again just for shits and giggles. We want to torment Szoboszlai

Draw for the Nations League will take place next month, February 12th Ireland are in Pot 3 & can play: Pot 1 Scotland🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Hungary🇭🇺 Poland🇵🇱 israel Pot 2 Switzerland🇨🇭 Bosnia 🇧🇦 Austria🇦🇹 Ukraine🇺🇦 Pot 4 Sweden🇸🇪 North Macedonia🇲🇰 Northern Ireland☘️ Kosovo🇽🇰

@WarMonitor3 Wait till he hears about Putin attacking a maternity hospital and a theatre with terrified children in Mariupol !

Trump is reportedly outraged by the supposed Ukrainian attack on Putins residence.

@bconin8 @LRoar_Pod @ianharte23 @LansdowneRD_IE @reptracker Some stretch to argue the worst manager our senior side ever had (yes you could even argue worse than Staunton) 'did wonders'

@LRoar_Pod @ianharte23 @LansdowneRD_IE @reptracker Must be a big John Delaney fan? ... Considering what Kenny inherited, he did wonders... Who's Stephen Harte anyhow.. Won some medal with a lower side British team once, never played top tier English football and has no managerial experience or qualifications

@DublinAirport @troyparrott9 He could do an injury using all those bags. protect him at all costs so he can peck the Checks and Danes.

Look who just flew back into his very own airport… 🎄 @troyparrott9